Brian Sum is a concept artist who has worked for Canadian developers BioWare since 2007. Before that, he'd been at Sierra and Microsoft's FASA Studio.

As a senior concept artist working on Mass Effect 3, Sum has produced some stunning vistas for many of the game's galactic locations, ranging from the inside of alien starships to futuristic gardens to space nightclubs.

He also worked on some of the unit design for the game, as well as many of Mass Effect 3's new weapons.